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2021 SESSION
Delegate Joshua G. Cole (D) - House District 28
In-session address:
- Pocahontas Building, Room E218
- 900 East Main Street
- Richmond, Virginia 23219
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- HB 1738 Alcoholic beverage control; local outdoor refreshment areas.
- HB 1755 Right to work; repeals provisions of Code that refers to denial or abridgement.
- HB 1780 Public employees; prohibition on striking, exception.
- HB 1781 Intentional injury to property or a monument or memorial; reduces penalty.
- HB 1795 Counseling, Board of; licensure of professional counselors without examination.
- HB 1815 Marijuana; legalization of cultivation, manufacture, sale, possession, and testing, penalties.
- HB 1828 Commissioner of DMV; powers and duties during a declared state of emergency.
- HB 1848 Virginia Human Rights Acts; adds discrimination on the basis of disability.
- HB 1864 Virginia Human Rights Act; expands definition of employer.
- HB 1889 Va. Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord remedies, noncompliance with rental agreement.
- HB 1890 Discrimination; prohibited in voting and elections administration, etc.
- HB 1906 Campaign finance; prohibited contributions from corporations, civil penalty.
- HB 1908 Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; noncompliance with rental agreement, etc.
- HB 1915 Teachers; required to be compensated at or above national average.
- HB 1921 Assistance for certain voters; curbside voting.
- HB 1929 Standards of Quality; work-based learning and principal mentorship, teacher leaders and mentors.
- HB 1930 Higher educational institutions, public; admissions applications criminal history questions.
- HB 1937 Green New Deal Act; establishes a moratorium, effective January 1, 2022, etc.
- HB 1940 Students; guidelines on excused student absences, civic or political engagement.
- HB 1941 Law-enforcement officer; discharge of firearm, etc., release of video or audio recording.
- HB 1980 Enslaved Ancestors College Access Scholarship and Memorial Program; established, report.
- HB 1985 Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for COVID-19.
- HB 1993 State agencies and their appointing authorities; diversity, equity, and inclusion strategic plans.
- HB 2013 School boards; board policy for students unable to pay for a meal at school.
- HB 2016 Paid family and medical leave program; Virginia Employment Commission required to establish.
- HB 2040 Unemployment compensation; failure to respond, continuation of benefits, repayment of overpayments.
- HB 2051 Alcoholic beverage control; local outdoor refreshment areas.
- HB 2053 Affordable & market-rate housing; DHCD to evaluate growing demand.
- HB 2054 Comprehensive plan; provision for transit-oriented development.
- HB 2082 Virginia Redistricting Commission; transparency in redistricting process.
- HB 2113 Criminal records; establishes a process for automatic expungement, etc., report.
- HB 2130 Virginia LGBTQ+ Advisory Board; established, report.
- HB 2132 Homicides and assaults and bodily woundings; certain matters not to constitute defenses.
- HB 2135 School boards, certain; participation in the Afterschool Meal Program.
- HB 2137 Paid sick leave; employers to provide to certain employees.
- HB 2203 Virginia Agriculture Food Assistance Program and Fund; established and created.
- HB 2204 Get Skilled, Get a Job, Give Back (G3) Fund and Program; established.
- HB 2208 Harry F. Byrd, Sr., statue; removal from Capitol Square.
- HB 2213 Gold; Secretary of Natural Resources, et al., to study mining and processing.
- HB 2216 Va. Missing Child w/ Autism Alert Program; renames Va. Missing Person w/ Autism Program.
- HB 2221 Environmental permits; community and environmental justice outreach, new permit applications.
- HB 2263 Death penalty; abolition of current penalty, repeals certain provisions.
- HB 2291 Law-enforcement civilian oversight bodies; deputy sheriffs.
- HB 2312 Marijuana; legalization of simple possession, etc.
- HB 2324 Virginia Redistricting Commission; removing a citizen commissioner for neglect, etc.
- HB 2325 Corrections Ombudsman, Office of the Department of; created, report.
- HB 2333 COVID-19; administration of vaccine.
- HJ 525 National Statuary Hall Collection at the United States Capitol; Barbara Rose Johns.
- HJ 537 Racism; General Assembly to recognize as a public health crisis.
- HJ 538 Access to water; human right.
- HJ 552 Recurrent inland and urban flooding across the Commonwealth; joint subcommittee to study.
- HJ 555 Constitutional amendment; felon disenfranchisement, etc. (first reference).
- HJ 559 Global warming; caused by human activity has resulted in a climate and ecological emergency.
- HJ 560 Pharmaceutical distribution payment system; Secretary of HHR to convene a work group to examine.
- HJ 565 Celebrating the life of the Honorable Augustus Benton Chafin, Jr.
- HJ 589 Celebrating the life of the Honorable Mamye E. BaCote.
- HJ 606 Equal Citizens Month; designating as November 2021 and each succeeding year thereafter.
- HJ 607 Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month; designating as May 2021 and each succeeding year thereafter.
- HJ 618 Racism & racist ideologies; condemns all forms of hate, bigotry, etc., & discrimination.
- HJ 631 Celebrating the life of the Honorable Bernard S. Cohen.
- HJ 632 Commending Redella S. Pepper.
- HJ 651 Celebrating the life of Katherine Bridgforth Hooker.
- HJ 666 Commending the City of Fredericksburg.
- HJ 675 Commending the Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine.
- HJ 676 Commending the T.C. Williams School of Law at the University of Richmond.
- HJ 682 Commending Bobby Hill.
- HJ 716 Celebrating the life of Thomas Henry Francis.
- HR 265 Commending the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
- SB 1099 Children's Services Act; special education programs.
- SB 1101 Presidential electors; National Popular Vote Compact.
- SB 1301 Correctional facilities; use of isolated confinement.
- SB 1395 Discrimination; prohibited in voting and elections administration, etc.
- SJ 284 Celebrating the life of the Honorable Augustus Benton Chafin, Jr.
- SJ 290 Constitutional amendment; legislative compensation, Legislative Compensation Commission established.
- SJ 295 Commending Spotsylvania County.
- SJ 296 Commending Barry M. Barnard.
- SJ 318 Celebrating the life of Stephen Teel Goodwin.
- SJ 320 Celebrating the life of Dr. John E. Thomasson.
- SJ 377 Celebrating the life of Officer Brian David Sicknick.